Terrorists have not declared war on us, Richie. That's a convenient fiction used by Bush to justify restrictions of freedom. Al Qaeda is the one terrorist organization which has conducted attacks against the U.S., and we think we've pretty much dispersed them. Also, Saddam's regime, however brutal, is sufficiently totalitarian to restrict the freedom of terrorist groups within it. The likely result of a U.S. invasion is either warlordism or a corrupt and ineffectual puppet government, both of which provide much better breeding grounds for terrorism.